Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Short film part of NMIXX’s 3rd EP “Fe3O4: STICK OUT” roll out

1. On his first day of work, Omar was notified of the delay saying his job is yet to be confirmed. He tries to find work for his family who is in desperate need to make ends meet. 2. Adnan is cast in an indie film with an excellent opportunity. He will be playing the role of a child who has never met a Middle Eastern man. 3. It's the day of the 'Refugee Kickboxer' Aska's first match in Korea. Is he one step closer to his dream? Will there be a bright future waiting for him if he win's the match? Can he live well in Korea? A precious day for three Yemeni refugee applicants in Jeju, perhaps even trivial.

Shock nearly kills the overworked Shin-ja when she learns that her boyfriend, whom she supported through medical school, is engaged to an heiress.

An eastern and Feminine reinterpretation of the 7days of creation through tattoo, a primeval art itself.

Spirits of Chun-Sam's mother and wife, who are raped and severely murdered by Rang-Son and his followers, appear to kill 4 knights. Surprised by this, the lord asks Chun-Sam to help Rang-Son to seize the ghosts. Ghosts recognize him and avoid fighting. But his wife's spirit can't tolerate longing for him and appears to him to spend one night in defiance with her mother-in-law's dissuade. Rang-Son understand the situation and tries to catch the ghosts by using Chun-Sam as a bait, but the ghosts kill his followers. As Chun-Sam finds the truth, he kills Rang-Son. When Chun-Sam builds graves for his mother and wife, two ghosts revive from death and appear in front of him

The main character, who started out as a peddler selling instant adhesives on the subway due to financial difficulties, experiences a series of setbacks due to fear and shame. He gains courage through the kindness of a stranger and eventually seems to succeed, but...

825 nude actors are used to tell the story of pre-industrial Korea, beginning with paradise and progressing into man's destruction.

Amy, adopted by an American family as a child, visits a jjigae restaurant in Jungnang-gu, Seoul. She introduces herself as a chef from the U.S. to Eunseon, the restaurant owner searching for staff after her mother passed away. Amy asks Eunseon to teach her how to make jjigae. Amy can not hide her complex feelings toward Eunseon's mother. Eunseon gradually grows suspicious about Amy.

Two interpol agents go undercover in Moscow to discover who has stolen four nuclear missiles and a legendary Chinese artifact of great mystical power.

Mangchi is a young boy with few problems and an easy disposition. Living on a building in the middle of the sea, he flies around on his little flying bike looking for adventures and longs for the day when he's finally an adult. So, when a princess named Poplar is being chased by two fighter planes, he rescues her. Little does he know that he will be pulled away from the city he has lived all his life, and dragged by Poplar into an adventure smack dab in between two countries at war and the evil plans of Moonk, usurper to Poplar's throne, who seeks world domination.

Julia, aged 18, kills her sister by pushing her from the 12th floor; and at the discotheque, she hits her classmate's head with a beer bottle. Julia is arrested and sent to the Girls Rehabilitation Centre where she is tortured and savaged by the guards. The film was originally a Korean movie from 1974 titled "Julie, a Half-blood" (https://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/db/kor/detail/movie/K/02793), released 10 years later as a HK movie with fake credits.

The gentle gesture of the three sisters surrounding the male housekeeper begins. The three sisters are not the food of the housemaid but the housekeeper's body.

Nancy (Ko Ah-Sung) is a musician, unable to open up to anyone due to a prior romance. Nancy decides to take a trip in England. On the trip, Nancy meets photographer Jude (James Page) who becomes her tour guide. They find many things in common during their 15 day trip...

The city hums with its usual noise and haste. Unable to keep pace with its restless speed, Se-yeon moves slowly, as if walking through a different time. Every day she brews her tea carefully, hangs her laundry, heads to work, and eats alone. She has a dream, yet never steps into it - only circles around it. Avoiding people's eyes, she goes to the darkened river after sunset and paints. It is the only moment she feels she is reaching toward her dream, the only moment she feels alive. There, in that night river, is someone else besides Se-yeon. By the same river, Jae-woo dreams as well - a dream of making a fortune by selling river sand. They share the same river, share meals, walk the same path, and spend a season together. At the end of summer, Se-yeon and Jae-woo finally come face to face with each other's fragile truths.

In 2006, Myongho crossed the border with his family with nothing from North Korea. In South, he becomes a deep-sea diver at the border village between South and North Korea. He wears 60 kg diving suit, only relying on a single oxygen line from the boat, and fishes 30 meters down underwater. If the line goes wrong, he could die in any minute. Myongho once crossed the most dangerous borderline, now he constantly crosses the line between life and death. This film will be the portrait of a courageous man who fights with the life for his family.

A couple meet and then part, shown in the course of a candlelit dinner.

Humanity builds ocean farms and ocean ranches all over the place, and Robot Taekwon V is tasked with protecting them. Meanwhile, the commander, Hoon, Cheol, and Dr. Norman's daughter Yuri begin to devise countermeasures inside the sea base to find the famous oceanographer Dr. Norman who has gone missing.

Ku-mok, who lives like a hyena, changes his cell phone at a convenience store. He tells Hwa-young to come to his office to find the replaced cell phone.

In order to get himself out of immense debt, a man is offered one way out: his girlfriend must give up both of her eyes to a crime lord.

Screenwriter Kyung-ju and private academy instructor Minjae have been married for 5 years. One day, one plate in a pair goes missing, and Kyung-ju thinks Minjae is to blame. But when Kyung-ju asks if he’s broken the plate and thrown it away, Minjae argues there was only one to start with.

Min-Sun (Mun Ka-Young) and Gun-Hee (Yeo Hoi-Hyeon) first met at a waltz class and have dated for the past 8 years. Min-Sun is now an intern at a large company and Gun-Hee works at a mid-size company. Somehow, they become competitors for a job.

High school Seniors Mok-Lyeon and Byung-Hee have their first sexual intercourse at a cramped and non-soundproof study-room at goshiwon. While Byung-Hee is out buying snacks for Mok-Lyeon, the neighboring man enters the room where Mok-Lyeon is alone...

Mang-wol, a master of martial arts, has doubts about the life he has led. Taking Yong, the son of Pak who he had nearly killed in a fight, Mang-wol disappears. As time passes, Mang-wol teaches Yong martial arts. Yong becomes an adult. He goes into the city to get medicine for Mang-wol. Yong runs into Nan-si, a woman of the Shaolin training hall, who takes all his gold. Yong is unable to defeat Paeng's fighting skills but Mang-wol saves him from his predicament. Paeng knows that Mang-wol is the enemy who killed Yong's father. Paeng searches out Mang-wol. Yong deceives Mang-wol and goes to see Nan-si. Yong becomes the manager of the Shaolin Hall but Paeng cruelly beats him up and Yong returns to Mang-wol. Mang-wol tells Yong the truth about his past and dies in a fight with Paeng. Yong practices the new fighting technique he's developed and fights Paeng.

After the business collapsed, a married couple goes camping to get some fresh air. When they arrive at the campsite, they find out that the campsite is closed permanently. The husband suggests they spend the night in the campsite, and the wife reluctantly agrees. And then, another couple arrives at the site. As the night deepens, the mysterious and unfriendly couple reveals their true colors.

Ji Soo and Joon Yeong have been married for 5 years. Unlike the first few years of marriage, Joon Yeong is terrified at the sound of Ji Soo taking a shower. However, Ji Soo advances on Joon Yeong more and more because she wants to have children. Meanwhile, Ji Soo's best friend Yoon Kyung comes back from the Philippines and spends a few days with the couple. Joon Yeong feels his manhood reacting when he see's the young-looking and sexy friend of his wife's...

A boy has died. On the final day of his brief life, the story traces not only his fading memories but also those of Mujin, the teacher who held him dear.

About the pastor's daughter, who reconciled the irreconcilable fighters - the inhabitants of two neighboring villages.

Inserts depicts the story of a man and woman who meet on a film set and are drawn to each other; the narratives are expressed through unexpected situations, witty dialogue, and quirky rhythm.

ON-DOH fell in love in first time when he met GO-EUN. and then he wants sex with her for the first time in his life.

Se-hie decides to break off her affair with Jin-hyun after she meets his wife at a publisher's party. However, Jin-hyun's wife is not going to make things easy on Se-hie once she realizes what has been going on.

A youth romance drama that depicts the process of a man and a woman who were college lovers, breaking up in front of social reality and starting love again after becoming office workers.

A professional killer with no missing target climbs to the rooftop to get the job done. With no target in sight, he gets a phone call from the client. “The target is late. And with all due respect, Mr. Killer, could you give me a discount please?” The killer gets upset with the unreasonable proposition, but he knows that he needs to compete with others who take the job at lower prices.

High school student Yeon-ju and Eun-chae were rehearsing for a joint performance at the school after school ahead of the school festival performance. Then suddenly, a baseball that Hee-jun threw badly from the playground flies in through the window. Hee-jun comes into the classroom looking for the ball and the Yeon-ju tries to find Hee-jun's ball.

Su-il goes overseas to study with his future father-in-law's financial assistence. Over time he falls out of touch with the family because of his studies. His girlfriend's family begins struggling financially, and after failing to contact him, his girlfriend marries a rich man to solve her families economic situation.

Gu Bo is a beloved father and husband, but also a writer who struggles to be true to his sexual identity.

Parting with a loved one is the greatest pain. But those who have the hope of the resurrection consider pain and suffering to be a gift, because they come to know Jesus Christ and have the hope of the resurrection. So death becomes hope. It is because we are on a journey that will ultimately take us to the long-awaited heaven after our life on earth. Through the lives of Cheon Jeong-eun, who has passed the 120th round of chemotherapy, Lee Dong-won, who lost his beloved son, Jeong Ae-suk, who lost her husband, and Lee O-young, who lost her daughter and also passed away... and the apostle Thomas and the disciples of the early church, we learn how people with the hope of resurrection lived.

A woman leads a tiresome life trying to make ends meet, doing housework, and bring up her children. She tries her best to save money but she feels something is missing inside of her. She cannot communicate with her husband who brings his friends home at night to drink; they all seem to be speaking in incomprehensible gibberish

To feminists of all generations - is life treating you well?

Jin-cheol, a cab driver in Seoul, cannot take any passengers because his last customer left his guitar in the backseat. Annoyed and angry, Jin-cheol heads over to a guitar store.

Major corporations and the financial industry are thought to be the case of growth in exports and also the dangers of the IMF. The realities of the '97 Asian Financial Crisis and the IMF bailout are looked into in detail. While the government-led economic growth was being replaced by a neo-liberalistic one represented by a ‘global standard,’ there was an expert bureaucratic body. Meanwhile, Korea’s first general trading company was turned into the 4th largest major corporation by Kim Woochoong, who criticized the government and pushed for greater focus on international exports. With the old order of Korean economics facing the new, the summer of ’99 tells the story of the ticking time bomb of Daewoo.

L'Amour is the story of an elderly couple who have lived through pain and agony. Of their three sons, one committed suicide, one immigrated, and one ran away from home. The husband was once a two-star general with a promising future, but his decision not to join a coup d' tat would eventually lead to his dishonorable discharge and the loss of his pension. As the two grow older, they find an increasing sense of warmth and security in each other's presence. When one of their sons goes bankrupt, however, their house which they mortgaged to support him is take by the bank. With no social safety net to catch them, the two are forced to separate: the husband goes to a men's senior home while the wife ends up in a woman's home on the other side of the city. This painful separation forces the couple to find new means of communication, whether through letters or meeting in public parks. As month pass, the approaching winter promises harsh times ahead.

Middle aged Tae-gyu spends every night making love to his young and beautiful wife and everything seems like a happy dream to him. One night while his wife is out of town, someone keeps knocking on the door. The knocker doesn't reveal him or herself so Tae-gyu opens the door to find a woman who looks just like his wife, standing there. No, this woman looks just like his wife but she is wearing thick and heavy make up, has blonde hair and is wearing torn and ripped clothes. She's more decadent than his sentimental wife. After she's gone, Tae-gyu suffers every night from a nightmare in which he is being raped by an unknown figure and is confused if that is reality or just a dream. When the femme fatale comes back, Tae-gyu feels his wife's scent from her and is sure she is his wife by the look in her eyes. When she looks at him, he sees deep sadness. He knows that she wants him to kill himself when she hands him a knife so he stabs himself in the neck. Tae-gyu is dead, but it isn't over.

A village is being oppressed by a four villains lead by chow chung until a beggar comes to town and teaches a young man and woman the 7 star grand mantis style of fighting. They stomp out the gangs businesses and then have to fight them to a finish.

Pianist Sara arrives in the city of Seoul as an exchange professor. She can't see the sad loneliness of the city. Sarah enjoys her time as a well-to-do tourist. Others, born in the city, fight against loneliness and sorrow. Illegal workers are exploited and cops extort money from adult entertainment establishments. Among these, gang member Il-Hwan collects money from room-salons for protection. Deok-Sang drives a tourist bus instead of his father and Ji-Won sells food items by a station. These three people become connected.

Susie, a Filipino worker working in a sewing factory, is working underpaid. Then one day, Susie acts as the boss's mother and solves all of this.